Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Above all, said Dewey, the U.S. must have a Pacific defense treaty (a project which the State Department considers premature). The individual treaties the U.S. now has with Japan, the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand are, by themselves, "either too little or too much . . . We are bound to defend these widely separated, isolated areas . . . but each is likely to turn out indefensible as an isolated spot . . . We should view the Free Pacific as a whole." The U.S. and its allies, said Dewey, are already carrying most of the burdens of a Pacific defense treaty, but are getting none...
...opposite extreme, is no less repugnant to me. [It] talks in the slick vocabulary of 'red herring' and 'phantoms' ... It rejects the idea that you and I, in order to sustain our individual liberties, must remain helpless in the face of Communist conspiracy . . . Freedom can defend itself without destroying itself...
...defend their party, the Republicans have scheduled State Representative Francis A. Harding '30, who has served on the Labor Committee of the House of Representatives...
...Long ago we asserted a great principle upon this continent, that men are, and of right ought to be, free. Now we are called upon to defend that right against the mightiest forces of evil ever assembled under...
Drawing a distinction between his kind of fight against Communism and Joe McCarthy's, Eisenhower warned against "violent vigilantism. To defend freedom," said he, "is-first of all -to respect freedom . . . That respect demands another, quite simple kind of respect-respect for the integrity of fellow citizens who enjoy their right to disagree with us. The right to challenge a man's judgment carries with it no automatic right to question his honor." (Joe McCarthy, on the platform, did not applaud these sentences-although the crowd...